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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

From Envelope to Planner Goodies

Hi Friends!It’s Ruthie sharing with you some of the
projects I’ve been working on with the HappieScrappie Planner Kit for
October.In today’s post, I decided to
focus on different ways of using the cute packaging the kit comes in.Sam recently changed the packaging and it now
comes in an adorable envelope.I wanted
to create something with it as soon as I saw the adorable print!

The first thing I did was cut the
envelope open through the sides. One of
the easiest things to create was a dashboard. All I did was cut one of the envelope flaps to
size! The next step was to laminate and hole-punch. Although the kit itself comes with an
adorable dashboard, it’s always nice to have extra options.

This left me with one side of the
envelope and the flap. With the other
flat side of the envelope, I created a pocket.
One can never have too many pockets in a planner either. I simply trimmed it a bit, folded in half and
cut open one of the slits from the top to make the “opening.” (I hope this is making sense.) If you would like a more detailed tutorial,
let me know in the comments and I’ll take pictures of the process. I used double stick crafting tape to stick
the sides together, hole punched it and filled it up with adorable
happiescrappie stickers!! The envelope
is made of really think cardstock so the pocket came out nice and sturdy.

Another easy project to make with
the scraps was a page marker. I used one
of the page markers from my Filofax as a pattern and simply traced it onto the
watermelon paper. I did the same process as with the dashboard; laminated and
hole punched it. You can use stamps or
sticky notes to further embellish it!

So I still had little bits and
pieces of the envelope left and decided nothing would go to waste!! I cut out two little watermelons and created
a paper clip to match the whole set. I
used hot glue to adhere the paper to the paperclip and voila! I then turned to my trusty Xyron sticker maker
to make stickers out of some of the other watermelon cut-outs. I’ll probably use the stickers throughout my
layouts or in pocket letters.

I had so much fun with this kit—and that was
only using the cute envelope Sam created to ship our goodies in!! I hope to share how I used the adorable
stationery bits in the kit during the next blog post. Feel free to share your comments and ideas on
my Instagram page @threadofhearts!!
Until next time —Happie Planning!!